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'Thought' "Talk" "Demon"

A Good Life

Chapter 1, October 10th

AN: this is my first story, but i have read fanfiction for about a year now, and this is the first story idea that i am going to try out, to see if anyone is interested in it. i will continue the story if someone wants me to, other wise, i will just upload chapter 2 and leave the story alone. i hope you enjoy the story. Read and Review please.

Sweat drips down the side of my face as I run. My sides burn, and my feet hurt. I sprint through the street, and dodge through the crowd of people in the streets. Rounding a corner, I dive into an alley. I finally stop to catch my breath, and dive behind a dumpster.

As I hide behind a dumpster, I watch as a crowd of 20, maybe 30 people run by. I duck back down, and hold my breath. I hear them keep running by, and wait another couple of minutes to be sure that they are gone. After I figure I have waited long enough, I stand up and glance around. This is not what I wanted my day to be like.

I am Naruto Uzumaki, and the village pariah, and despised by 95% of the village. Today, October 10th, is my birthday. It is also the day that the Kyuubi attacked, 8 years ago. I am 8 today, and yet, this is the worst day of my life. My orphanage has kicked me out, and I have been chased by a mob of people for hours.

I walk out of the alley, and glance around warily. There is no on the street, so I run for the center of the village, toward the hokage tower, where Ji-Ji will be there to help me. The alley is about 3 blocks from the tower, and I hope I can run all the way there, without any of the villagers noticing me. I sprint through the streets, and jump at the sound of "There he is!"

I glance behind me, and I see a villager pointing to me, and see that there is a group of 10 people running at me. They are running REALLY fast, and I realize that they are ninja, and that they will catch me in a matter of seconds.

I glance around, and notice that I am about 2 blocks from the Hokage tower, but I am almost at a park. I dash to the park, and dive into a tube slide, just as the fast people get to the park.

I press my hands and feet against the slide, and hold myself in place. I don't hear anything for about 5 minutes, and I let myself fall down the slide.

As soon as I hit the ground, I feel a pair of hands grab me, and see that the ninja didn't leave, they just waited. I am thrown away from the slide, and my back slams into a rock.

There are a total of 4 of the ninja. They are all wearing pants with many pockets, and have on green vests that I have seen a lot of people wearing. As I watch, one pulls out a kunai, and throws it at me.

I try to twist out of the way, but it still hits my left arm, right below my elbow. I scream for the first time in my life, and writhe on the ground, trying to grasp it, and pull it out. I pull on the handle of the kunai, but stop, as it sends much more intense pain through my body.

I stop screaming and grit my teeth, and grasp the kunai again, and yank it out.

I scream again, and tears stream down my face as I hold my arm. I glance at my arm, and blood is pouring out of the hole in my arm. They all laugh at me, and one grins.

I drop the kunai as the same man walks up to me, and he kicks me in the face, the wood of his sandal crunching against my nose, and I fall back down, and I feel pain in my face, and I scream again with vigor.

The man continuously slams his foot on my gut, and I curl up in a ball to make him stop. My whole body hurts really badly, and I lay there and cry.

I pay no attention to what is going on around me and gasp as I feel pain in my leg, like nothing I have ever felt before. I look at my leg, and I see a kunai handle sticking out of my knee. I can see the handle on one side of my knee, and the point on the inside of my knee.

The other men walk up to me, and begin to beat me, punching kicking, and stabbing me. This continues for what feels like hours and I feel weak, like I am really sick, and I open my eyes. I see the men beating me, but my vision is blurry, and everything is getting dark.

"How does it feel Demon? This is for the thousands of people you killed when you got here. Were going to kill you nice and slow, and make you suffer while you are defenseless in your human form that Yondaime-sama trapped you in. After all, Danzo-sama said you were defenseless, and you are. The Third even went so far as to give you a name. Ha! Despicable!"

I close my eyes, and all of the pain starts to sort of blend together, and I begin to feel nothing. All of the pain just seems to go away, and I feel myself going unconscious. But then, all of the pain goes away. I open my eyes, and I see someone's back, standing over me. They are wearing a green vest, and I recognize the vest that the fast people are wearing.

As I watch, the man dashes forward, and quickly punches one man in the gut, then he jumps and kicks another man in the face, breaking his nose. Both fall to the ground, but this doesn't deter the remaining 2. They each pull out a kunai, and advance toward the other ninja.

The man is quick, and he jumps towards the man on the left, and he throws a quick punch to the throat, and the man falls, grasping his throat. But then, the remaining ninja jumps towards him, and slashes at his face, and the man ducks and sweeps the attackers legs out from underneath him with a swift leg sweep, and quickly stomps on his gut.

With all of the ninja down, he turns to me, and the first thing I notice is that he has on a white mask, an ANBU mask, and I cant really tell anything else about him, other than that he has brown hair.

"Are you all right there kid?" He asks. I just stare at him, my body hurting too much to talk. "I will that as a no. Here, let me take you to the hospital."

He picks me up, and I black out then.

I open my eyes slowly, and the first thing I see are white ceiling tiles. I pull myself up, so that I can look around, and I can see that I am in a bed with white sheets, and I am in a room with nothing in it, just a window to my left, and a door that is straight ahead. 'oh great, I'm in a hospital.'

Even as I am looking around, I see a nurse come in. "Oh, your awake already. That is surprising. It's only been 6 days, and I thought it would take weeks to recover from a beating like that. You were a bloody mess when Tenzou brought you in. Oh, I will go get Hokage-sama immediately. He requested to be brought to you as soon as you woke up."

I just stared at her in a daze as she walked out of the room. My body felt absolutely fine, but I was stuck on 6 days. I was in the hospital for 6 DAYS! I had never so much as been in the hospital for two days when I broke my arm; it had healed as soon as I went to sleep.

I laid there for about three minutes when I got bored, so I lifted the covers, and swung my legs off of the bed. I placed my feet on the floor, and gingerly stood up. I feel fine. I walk around, then open the door and peer outside.

My door is at the end of a hallway, so I walk out of the door, and walk down the hallway. At the end of the hall way, is a set of double doors, and I push them open to see the reception area of the hospital. The lady at the desk looks up, and gasps. I see her staring at me, and I look down. Only then do I realize I am in my underwear, with animated pictures of kunai and shuruken.

My face grew red, and at that moment, I knew I was redder than Hinata ever was.

I turned around, and dashed back into my room, and dived onto the bed, and threw the covers over myself. My face was still beet red, and I couldn't believe I hadn't noticed I was in nothing but boxers.

I lay there for another two or three minutes, until Ji-Ji walked into the room. Immediately, I knew he had heard about what happened when I ran out of my room.

He walked in with a grin on his face, and said "So your in such a hurry to leave, you don't want your clothes back?"

I blushed, and replied "I didn't notice I didn't have clothes on until the lady stared at me when I was trying to leave."

"Regardless Naruto-kun, you cant leave yet, it's a miracle that you can even walk yet. You shouldn't even be awake yet. The damage done to your body should have kept you unconscious for weeks, not a week. "

"But I'm okay Ji-Ji. Honestly. I feel perfectly fine. I can walk, and nothing hurts at all." At this point, I swing myself back out of the bed, and run in place to show Ji-Ji that I'm fine.

"Haha, I guess you are fine after all. I am just very surprised. The doctor told me that you had seven broken ribs, multiple stab wounds, various internal bruising, and a broken arm." 'Hmmm, it must have something to do with the Kyuubi's chakra in his body. Advanced healing… I wonder if it can be channeled into a bloodline…'

"So can I leave Ji-Ji? Please?" "Alright fine Naruto, you can go."

"Yeah!" I race from the room, dash down the hallway, and run out of the door. Sarutobi smiles as Naruto leaves. 'I wonder when he will notice he is still in his boxers…'

Only then, do I realize that I am still in my boxers. I blush when I notice that everyone in the street is staring at me, and I run back into the building.

Ji-Ji is sitting on the bed when I run back into the room, and he is smiling, but I can tell he is only just containing his laughter.

"So ugh Ji-Ji, where are my clothes?"

"They were so torn, and nasty, that they were thrown out when you were brought in. I already had my assistant go buy you some new clothes, nothing big, just a plain t-shirt, cargo pants and sandals to replace what were ruined. She should be here in a couple of minutes with your clothes."

"Okay Ji-Ji. But where will I go when I can go? I kinda forgot that I was kicked out of the orphanage."

"WHAT!"

"Yeah, they made me leave without my stuff, saying that I didn't deserve to be fed, and that I wasn't worth the cost of keeping alive."

'Those god damned old coots. They are going to have a long session with Ibiki when I get back' "Alright then Naruto, I will arrange for you to be given an apartment as soon as I get to the office."

"Umm Ji-Ji, i have a question,am i a demon?

AN: So what do you think? i would like to have so reviews to go off of, and the story does not have a sure ending. I am kind of winging it at the moment, so i dont know what direction i will take. Do you want a pairing? Or do you want me to just leave that be, untill the end? I will base the story off of what reviews I get, so please review.